Hi all Mypaint enthusiast and developers ;
My Name is David Revoy, aka Deevad ; and I am the storyboarder /
concept artist / art director on Durian , the 3rd Open movie of the
Blender Foundation after Elephant Dream and Bick Buck Bunny. (
http://durian.blender.org/ ) I already have a great freelance carreer as
concept artist, art director and illustrator for many studios and
publishers. I'm a 2D teacher too for the High School of CG Albert
Jaquard in Belgium, with 120 student per year. I use also now only open
source for my workflow , I switched totally to Linux.
All of this to finally say and convince you that " Big no no : I'm not
an illuminated beginner that talk of things he don't know " ... : - )
Now I presented myself, let me talk about my feature request ( I
already talked of it on IRC #mypaint today ) ;
Just before starting Durian in 2 weeks , I have a good proposition from
the Blender Institute & Ton Rosendall ; to do the 5th Dvd of the
collection "Blender training / production workshop" mainly around 2D.
Code name : "Blend & Paint" ( series freely licensed as Creative
Commons , more info here :
http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/default_dvds.php so, it's not a basic
"commercial" project ) - Keep all this info for you ; this project is
still top-secret :-D thanks
This future Dvd will be a complete course of 2D digital painting ;
from scratch and a first one ever in the categories "open source digital
painting" . It will show basics as painting / light / shadows /
perspective / character design / environnement / etc..... as advanced
as my "Blend & Paint" technic ; Mixing 3D and 2D paint over, concept
art etc......
And all of this with some oriental philosophie of paiting and great tips
from pros. A large menu ! and 3hours of pure knowledge.
All the DVD ( as well as main part of my future Durian work ) was
planned to do with the couple Blender+GImp ( patched with
Gimp-for-Painter ) .
If I planned at first to use Blender+GImp mostly , it's because the lack
of key feature I use as standard digital painting tools in Mypaint.
But I've got a real passion for Mypaint, and I know that if I do this
DVD with Mypaint as a main tool ; I can bring a lot of new users ,
professionals / schools or developers around the mypaint project and
help to democratize it more. And so, benefit too on long terms about
this emulation of new futures features. That's seducing ideas :)
But OK, I wake a bit late compare to my project for this brillant idea
cause I have only 2 weeks to finish it ; But I prefer ask for my
features ; so, I created this request list of 3 item : ( it's a html
page cause I coudn't use the wiki uploader, and forum is a bit too
public to show it for the moment ) :
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LINK OF MY DETAILLED FEATURES REQUEST : ( with pictures ! )
=== http://www.davidrevoy.com/temp/mypaint-request/ ===
3 main features explained in details on this page link above ;
1) straight line
2) Blending mode for layers
3) Tools usefull for frequent and productive sketch & storyboard
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If i could get this work in Mypaint fastly (before the end of week
; sadly ) then I can use my last week to record the DVD and make it
Blender+Mypaint mainly !
( as well as making Mypaint my main tool on Durian preproduction )
Imagine the big impact it can have ;) I'm really enthusiast for it !
DVD will be out in end of September / mid October, so it will let
developers polish the release.
But for now, I have only till Sunday to solve it.
Let me know if Mypaint developers can !
I will be on IRC channel as long I can be present this week, I hope this
will be possible ;
Thanks a lot all for reading my mail.
David Revoy
( PS; Blender developers of the painting part of Blender propose me
there code for helping Mypaint layer blending mode )
(PS 2 : All in all .... Good job for Mypaint )
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http://www.davidrevoy.com
2D Illustrator - Concept Artist
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